Wondering what Destination Arcade looks like — the Summer of Arcade browser for Xbox Live Arcade titles — yet lack the energy it takes to turn on your Xbox 360 and download it? It’s cool, we know how it is — life’s tough, so we’re here to help. Just beyond the break, you’ll find our HD video walkthrough of the new content delivery platform, as narrated by myself and my smart, talented and downright physically attractive boss, Chris Grant.

… what? Nothing more to see here — that’s your cue to go watch the video!

You know, we were just thinking about how tame ol’ Kratos had become in the latter portions of the God of War trilogy. What happened to the days when he’d straight murder a Greek historical figure, unprovoked, just to solve a puzzle? Fear not — those days will apparently return in Ghost of Sparta.

If you doubted that Rage could look decent on the Xbox 360, rest assured it is a beautiful game. During the 30-minute presentation I attended at the Bethesda booth at E3, the “hand-crafted” environments backed up the boasting of the id Software producer guiding attendees through two different campaign segments.

First of all, know that the premise isn’t the only thing similar to that of the other big post-apocalyptic FPS, Fallout 3. The story is, like, very similar to that of Fallout 3. In Rage, a meteor strike has decimated the planet and the Authority — the governing body of the world before the apocalypse — apparently saw fit to bury these arks deep below ground, to house the remnants of humanity who could one day return to the surface after the effects of the meteor strike dissipated. The player’s vault ark apparently has a malfunction (water chip malfunction? ) and, as the last survivor, you must make your way to the surface for reasons unknown and join the rest of humanity and the mutated, crazed individuals who were once human.

“This is gonna change the world.” Since our E3 meeting with OnLive CEO Steve Perlman and Joe Bentley, director of games & media development, wasn’t filmed, we have no way to convey to you the absolute sincerity with which Bentley said these words. He further assured us, “I left a very successful startup to do this. ”

Indeed he did — three years ago, Bentley quit his “architect” job at outsourcing firm LiveOps (where he built software) for OnLive, after seeing parent company Rearden Labs’ Mova motion capture technology. And now? Now he’s busy helping manage the launch and continued growth of OnLive. He’s also busy trying to convince us of the service’s promise in the coming months and years.

This will be the first year since the start of the Ratchet & Clank Future series that the franchise will be quiet on the PS3. Fans of Insomniac’s space-venturing duo need not fret too much, though. DC Comics’ WildStorm imprint is releasing a brand new Ratchet & Clank comic series this September, written by Insomniac’s TJ Fixman.

The new series will follow the events of the last game, A Crack in Time, and should satiate fans’ appetites for the series’ continuation. The comic will be available in retail stores and on the PSP Digital Comics service.

Julian Assange feels he has been unjustly persecuted.
Women have been extremely helpful and generous with me and put up with me, assisting me in my work, caring for me, loving me and so on. “But if its management is operating in a responsive way there will be resignations,” he said, without giving details about the material. WikiLeaks has enraged Washington by releasing thousands of US diplomatic cables and US Vice President Joe Biden described Assange as a “hi-tech terrorist”. “We don’t want the bank to suffer unless it’s called for,” Assange told The Times. Assange also confirmed that WikiLeaks was holding a vast amount of material about Bank of America which it intends to release early next year. “I don’t need to be at the beck and call of people making allegations,” he said. AFP As a result, he said, the women had gone to the police for advice “and then the police jumped in on this and bamboozled the women”. “I’ve never had a problem with women. Assange said he was used to attention from women but would not reveal how many women he had slept with. Shares in Bank of America have fallen amid speculation that it was a WikiLeaks target. “I don’t need to go back to Sweden. Sweden wants Britain to extradite the 39-year-old Australian to face questioning over allegations from two women that he raped one of them and sexually assaulted the other in Stockholm in August. US officials are believed to be considering how to indict Assange for espionage. have certain rights, and these rights mean that I do not need to speak to random prosecutors around the world who simply want to have a chat, and won’t do it in any other standard way.”

He said that one account of what occurred in August was that after having discovered they had each had sex with him, they had got into a “tizzy”, or a panic, about the possibility of sexually transmitted diseases. That’s what I’m used to.”

Assange claimed that the Swedish authorities had asked that his Swedish lawyer be “gagged”, adding that his offers to be interviewed by video link or by Swedish officials in Britain had been rejected. “There are some serious problems with the Swedish prosecution,” he said in an interview from the mansion of a wealthy supporter in eastern England where he must stay as part of his bail conditions. “A gentleman certainly doesn’t count,” he said. In an interview with The Times on Tuesday, Assange compared WikiLeaks’ “persecution” to that endured by Jews in the US in the 1950s. The law says I…

Assange told the BBC that one account of what happened in August – the month at the centre of allegations against him – was that the two women had panicked when they found out they had both slept with him and went to police who “bamboozled” them. He insisted he was fighting a Swedish extradition warrant because he believes “no natural justice” would occur in Sweden. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said the Swedish women who have accused him of sexual assault had got into a “tizzy” about the possibility they had caught a sexually transmitted disease from him.

According to a GamesMaster interview with Project Sora head Masahiro Sakurai (excerpted by ONM) 3DS flagship title Kid Icarus: Uprising might feature Kids Icarus, plural. “The online capabilities are currently being tested,” Sakurai said. “There could be some versus play but we can’t go into any detail. There are a lot of capabilities that expand on what was in the DS that people are taking advantage of. “

If anyone’s going to make a 3DS online game happen, it’s Sakurai, one of the few Nintendo developers to make an online game (Super Smash Bros. Brawl). But how would a versus mode work in an on-rails shooter — score competitions?

To log out of any of them, click “end activity”. It follows the news of a Sydney mother-of-three, her daughter and daughter’s friends being subjected to a two-week ordeal at the hands of a Facebook stalker they have been unable to get the social networking company to do anything about. Facebook said it was making the service available over the next couple of weeks, accessible on computers, but not mobile devices. There, it will show where else the Facebook account is logged in, including the type of device and the city it’s in or near. The feature is similar to the feature Google’s Gmail offers its users, and Facebook said it would help users keep their logins secure. To access the feature, users should go to “account settings” on their Facebook page and click on “change” next to “account security”. AP and smh.com.au Facebook is rolling out a new security feature that lets users log out of their accounts remotely from another computer.

The announcement appears to make Aftenposten the first media organisation outside WikiLeaks’ five partners to obtain the material – a development sure to heighten US government fears that the public release of some uncensored diplomatic cables could endanger informants’ lives. The truth lies trapped in a web of intrigue
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A Norwegian newspaper says it has obtained the entire trove of 250,000 uncensored US diplomatic documents that WikiLeaks has been distributing.
Bradley Manning, was charged in July with leaking classified material, including video posted by WikiLeaks of a 2007 U.S. AP “We have received these documents … The Pentagon denies the claim. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has not been charged in connection with leaked documents but was jailed in England this month after two women in Sweden accused him of sex crimes, including rape. Managing editor Ole Erik Almlid said Aftenposten has no restrictions on how to use the material, and will be publishing articles about the US documents that it finds relevant in its online and paper editions. He was freed on bail last week and is confined to a supporter’s country estate in Britain while he fights extradition to Sweden, where authorities want to question him in the sex crimes inquiry. The documents are also being published by The New York Times, France’s Le Monde, Britain’s Guardian newspaper and the German magazine Der Spiegel. On Wednesday, a spokeswoman for Manfred Nowak, the U.N.’s top anti-torture envoy, said Nowak was looking into a complaint that Manning, who visitors say spends 23 hours a day alone in a cell, has been mistreated in custody. A US solider, Pfc. Manning is now in a Marine Corps brig in Quantico, Va. “We never reveal our sources.”

Earlier this year, WikiLeaks published tens of thousands of classified US military documents on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is not known who sent the US documents to WikiLeaks. without restrictions and without paying anything for it,” Almlid said, declining to say exactly how the paper obtained the material. Apache helicopter attack in Baghdad that killed a Reuters news photographer and his driver. So far WikiLeaks has released about 1,900 of the more than 250,000 State Department documents it claims to possess, many of them containing critical or embarrassing US assessments of foreign nations and their leaders. Aftenposten will also post parts of some of the original documents on its website, redacting sensitive information such as names if needed, Almlid told The Associated Press.
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